Marc's Voice

Blogging from Paris on July 4th ‘08

I’m blogging from Paris - where our forefathers helped found our country.  France gave our tiny country allot of help and support in exchange for sticking it in Britain’s eye.  Now we find our global economy and the Internet uniting us all in the spirit of openness and cooperation.  Lets hope that our new president brings us back to our roots and puts us back in the right direction.

I’ve just left Milan where I was working with a client Mondadori - which is a large media company in Italy (and France.)  We have just alpha launched a site for women called LeAmiche.donnamoderna.com.  Donna Moderna is sort of like the Marie Claire, O or Elle of Italy.

Mondadori (owned by Berlusconi) also publishes Cosmopolitan in Italian and many other magazines. They also are a major book publisher.

LeAmiche was built by Paolo Valdemarin and his team in Gorizia.  Congrats to all.  We’re not done yet - but it’s up!
Meanwhile……

The comment space is getting interesting. Read/Write web is integrating FriendFeed comments. Seesmic video comments are spreading everywhere, CoComment went 3.0 and Disqus finally has found the right formula for a comment platform.

What? No quote from CoryDoctorow?

1M messages a second.  Hmm - maybe Evan Williams needs to call Jonathan Schwartz!

The flow is flowing to a new blog - on Enteprise IT - this post on the iPhone shows a classic cross-blog migration path.  The fact that it leverages our nation’s birthday gets your attention, it’s authored by a famous blogger, uses witty phrasing and better still - it includes a classic image.  Net net - you click, you flow and the beat goes on.

Hmmm - a memetracker!  OpenCalais tagging?

Coolio new kinds of widgets are blooming everywhere.

Status updating - and the six ways to do it - how are these products anything mroe than features?  I’m confused who’s funding these companies?

I’m sorry I’m missing the 2gether event.  I’ll be in London Sun-Tues.

Neighborhood statistics API

Wordpress goes Turbo.  COOLIO!

Tee Hee Hee - how long did it take Adobe to figure out that Flash isn’t searchable - what?  10 years?

Paul Boutin helps promote his wife’s company. What’s Splunk?

Regator,  Swurl, Flowgram, Identi.ca, HeySpread,